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Topic: All Zombie Novels / Books Here

Ok...There are a lot of Zombie materials out there. I want to find the best ones to read. Some seem to be series of books, and some are stand alones. I don't feel like spending a lot of time to research these books on my own. Was hoping my brothers and sisters at HM could come to this Thread with recommendations. Or at least there could be some discussion here.

I like apocalyptic ones. People surviving. Fighting. Shooting Zombies.

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I can't believe I forgot to mention the "As the World Dies" trilogy by the virtuoso of zombie fiction Rhiannon Frater.Linky goodness

Cool fun fact: This trilogy was written in installments of the forum over at moviesonline.ca. Sadly the forum is no more and all the excellent zombie stories over there are floating in some digital limbo. It was this actual trilogy that caused me to join the forum over there just to say how much I liked it. That turned out to be a bad move for you guys, I hung around and eventually got promoted to mod so when I eventually wandered over to this forum guess what happened You suffer because Meh thinks I'm awesome

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Cap Howdy wrote:

...Cool fun fact: This trilogy was written in installments of the forum over at moviesonline.ca. Sadly the forum is no more and all the excellent zombie stories over there are floating in some digital limbo...

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As The World Dies is definately the gold standard of zombie literature, the final installment of the trilogy is supposed to be out next month. Really great memories, logging onto the old site to find a new chapter up, just amazing writing.

Aside from that, I recently read one called Pariah by Bob Fingerman. It actually doesn't have a lot of zombie action, focusing more on the characters trapped in an apartment building, but a really great story.

David Wellington's zombie trilogy, Monster Island, Monster Nation, Monster Planet. The first one was the best, but the other two aren't bad.

Xombies, by Walter Greatshell. It also has a sequel, but I didn't like that one as much.

The Rising and City Of The Dead, by Brian Keene. These aren't traditional zombies, but demons possessing dead bodies.

Dead Sea, also by Brian Keene, these are more traditional type zombies.

Dead City, by Joe McKinney. Pretty good story, it also has a couple of sequels, but I haven't read them yet.

Deathbringer, by Bryan Smith. Kind of a different zombie story, but pretty good.

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Thanks Cap! One of my short stories actually was published last year. I'm still working on my novel, I had a lot of personal issues that slowed me down, but I'm back at work on it now. I'll keep you posted.

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I read quite a bit of zombie fiction. Other than what has already been mentioned:

J.L. Bourne's Day by Day Armageddon series (a favorite of mine)Z.A. Recht's Plague of the Dead, Thunder and Ashes, SurvivorsKim Paffenroth's Dying to Live seriesPeter Cline's Ex-HeroesBowie Ibarra's Down the Road seriesTony Monchinski's Eden series Ben Tripp's Rise AgainJoe McKinney's Dead World seriesJonathan Maberry's Patient ZeroJesse Petersen's Living with the Dead series (hysterical)S.G. Brown's Breathers: A Zombie's Lament (funny and written from the zombie POV)Diana Rowland's White Trash Zombie series (another Zombie POV with humor)Kevin David Anderson's Night of the Living Trekkies (a favorite of mine)Harrison Geillor's The Zombies of Lake WoebegottenDavid Dunwoody's EmpireCarlton Mellick III's Zombie's and Shit

I have more, but that's just what I could come up with off the top of my head.